Being the amazing, true-to-life adventures and (very likely) misadventures of a writer who seeks to take his education, activism and seemingly boundless energy to North Minneapolis, (NoMi) to help with a process of turning a rapidly revitalizing neighborhood into something approaching Urban Utopia. I am here to be near my child. From 02/08 to 06/15 this blog pushed free speech to the envelope, so others could take heart and speak unafraid. Email me at hoffjohnw@gmail.com

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

There's A Sidewalk Under There Somewhere...

Photo and blog post by John Hoff

With so many empty houses in North Minneapolis, that leaves plenty of sidewalks NOT getting shoveled. Calling 311 on every sidewalk would be more than one human being can accomplish, unless you were getting PAID, somehow. I wouldn't mind getting paid for a job like that. Just saying.

So, yeah, the job is too big for one person but there are some sidewalks I make my special project. The one at 2610 Newton Ave. N. is particularly deserving, in my both-humble-and-subjective opinion. As far as I can tell, the sidewalks there haven't been scraped all winter.

So today I called it in (again) and got a really cool 311 reference number: 322322.

This was not as cool as the time I got 311311 as a reference number but, still, cool enough. And a day without 311 is like a day without sunshine.